Ligeia | Ligeia

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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
First Published: 1838
Type of Work: Short fiction
Type of Plot: Gothic
Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
Setting: Germany and England
Principal Characters: The Narrator, Ligeia, Lady Rowena Trevanion
Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy, Gothic fiction
Subjects: Wives, Memory, Love or romance, Immortality, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Obsession, Substance abuse, England or English people, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Remarriage, Bereavement or grief, Germany or German people, Opium, Moths
Locales: England, Germany

He could not remember when he had first met Ligeia, and he knew nothing of her family except that it was old. Ligeia herself, once his wife, he could remember in every detail. She was tall and slender. Ethereal as a shadow, her face was faultless in its beauty, her skin like ivory, her features classic. Crowning the perfect face and body was raven-black, luxuriant hair. Her eyes, above all else, held the key to Ligeia’s mystery. Larger than most, those black eyes held an expression unfathomable even to her husband. It became his all-consuming passion to unravel the...

Ligeia | Ligeia

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